Who Will Go?

Who Will Go?

copyright Millie Plastaras 9/16/2007


Dear Friends, as I sit here today pondering the passing
of a generation of great preachers,
and evangelists, and people who loved God and listened to what He asked them to do.
They went into the whole world teaching the
"real" gospel, I wonder who will rise to the occasion next?

Who will pick up that Spiritual Olympic Torch for God and
continue the journey for souls?

We have seen the passing recently of D. James Kennedy, one of the
great defenders of the faith. A man of God who not only knew the
Bible intricately, but all the languages of the Bible, who knew
all the arguments, and all the apologetics needed to respond to those
arguments. A man who gave his life for God's work. Leaving behind a
powerful legacy as a man who stood his ground for God,
with integrity and honesty, and a desire to reach everyone
he could with the gospel.

We see the Rev. Billy Graham after many years of a powerful
ministry of preaching the gospel to every nation in the world,
and is now had to slow down because of age and disease.
The once powerful man slowed by age, yet his message and
thirst for God, forever changed this generation and the one
before it. If you watch the videos of him as a young man,
no one can equal that fire burning in his heart and sermons,
and the crystal clear message
he taught around the world. So crystal clear, anyone
could understand it, and thereafter could never say, I never heard
the truth of God's word. Because Billy Graham never
compromised the word to be popular, He spoke the word of God
in clarity and with a hunger to reach lost souls. He was
and is a great fisher of men.

Many great men have passed who had the fire of God
burning within their hearts, a hunger for his word,
a uncompromising walk with God, and were not afraid
to teach of sin, hell, accountability and personal righteousness.
Who believed in the inerrancy of the scriptures and stood
as great Defenders of the Faith and ambassadors for Christ.

How many of you are depending on someone else to do it?
How many of you can say within your hearts,
I am doing all I should be for Jesus?

Does God only use great preachers, teachers and orators to reach people?

Do you hear that still small voice pleading with your heart?
My child will you do as I ask?
Will you follow me and give up everything that is not productive?
Will you seek those who do not know Christ and tell them the good news of the gospel? Are you afraid to tell people about me? Is your light hidden?
My child, if it is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost and dying without Christ.

Why are churches dying?
Why are people growing cold and far from God?

Because those of us who know him have become lazy. We have
depended on our pastor to do the work, and his staff. We become
comfortable, complacent, with the excuse that we have no talent,
we don't know where to go, and what to do to make a difference.

The Body of Christ is a community ALL working together, each
with a task, a responsibility and a accountability.

Too many churches accept that people won't volunteer
any more. Too many people have become pew sitters
and not revolutionaries for the gospel of Christ.
Pastors are afraid to preach the truth and challenge
people to get busy in the church and in their
community and Just do something!
They are afraid people will leave the church,
and that it will be even smaller.

And the churches are withering, and the world is
becoming darker and more violent because the light
that should illuminate the world is flickering by our
very inactivity, lack of prayer, lack of concern
and unsurrendered heart.

What if no one had ever told you about Christ, because they were
simply to lazy or too afraid, or too shy, or too busy?
Where would you be today?

Oh my friends, who will pick up the work and passion of those
who have gone on before us,
and go forth and tell the whole truth of God's word?

When will people get back to the simple message and life style Jesus taught?

We have strayed far from his calling, and teachings.

A new generation is rising, and many are headed in the wrong direction.
This must be a grave matter of prayer to us all.

When will today's preachers stop compromising the gospel
for the feel good preaching they are doing?
Too many are watering
down the Word of God to reach larger crowds. Too many afraid to
offend. God is not politically correct, He wants us to correct
our life of sin, through the atoning blood of Christ, and He must become
the absolute Lord and Savior of our lives,
and then we must become his ambassadors, his disciples!

It has to start with us. We have to challenge ourselves, and to wake up
to the call of Christ, and a burden for lost souls.
We have to be praying fervently everyday for the lost.
We have to be reading the word of God voraciously,
addicted to it, filling our spirits with it's words.
That we may be built up, strong, grounded, rooted in the truth
of God's word and KNOW when someone is not teaching the truth.

So we may be ready in season and out of season to tell the gospel, and the
reason for why we believe what we believe.

And those that tell, teach and preach the gospel, must live of the gospel,
and not compromise it in their lives. We have to walk the walk of integrity and truth, and talk the talk of honesty and surrender to Christ. No compromise!

Are you ready? Can you rise to that calling? Can you leave all behind
except the sweet voice of Jesus leading you?

What must I do to be saved? Repent of your sins, receive Jesus as your Savior,
leave the old life behind and become a disciple. Pick up that cross of Jesus daily and follow Him.

If you don't go, who will?
If you don't pray who will?

If you don't read the word, how will you know the truth?

Nothing is more serious and vital than this.

Only one life, will soon be Past
Only what is done for Christ will Last.

For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.